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To: RinConRon who wrote (422071)	4/16/2011 11:38:28 AM
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Ronald Reagan is sitting next to Jimmy Stewart in that show. The entire show is on youtube. note: (Reagan later made a joke with Sam Donaldson about having formerly been a Democrat) youtube.com (Lifelong and staunch Republican) Stewart nearly declined to support his friend Ronald Reagan's campaign for the governorship of California in 1966, since Reagan had been a Democrat until 1962. In 1976 Stewart campaigned extensively in California for Reagan in the presidential primaries, especially visiting shopping malls and airports. (Stewart) He was the first movie star to enter the service for World War II, joining a year before Pearl Harbor was bombed. He was initially refused entry into the Air Force because he weighed 5 pounds less than the required 148 pounds, but he talked the recruitment officer into ignoring the test. He eventually became a Colonel (active duty) & then Brigadier General in the United States Air Force Reserve. (Walter Matthau was a sergeant in his unit). Medals awarded: Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross with Oak Leaf Cluster, Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters, Army Commendation Medal, American Defense Service Medal, European African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with 3 Service Stars, World War II Victory Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal, French Croix de Guerre with Palm, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian award, by his friend President Ronald Reagan at the White House in 1985. imdb.com * * *